Art

The Art room at Heber is an extremely exciting and special place. Children enter a large and bright studio to explore and access a multitude of objects, imaginative ideas and making opportunities. Children are introduced to a wide range of materials and processes, artists, designers and outside stimuli.

Realising and nurturing personal ideas is paramount and encouraged through the use of recording observations in sketchbooks, where both the imagination and accurate looking skills are developed and refined. There are many types of drawings and reasons to draw, which the children uncover through different starting points revealed in the lesson.

Providing the children with wealth of materials and processes to create with is extremely important. We demonstrate how a contemporary artist can work from upcycling waste materials into a myriad of mixed media sculptural work, as well as practising skills in craft, graphic design, print, drawing and of course painting.  Children can express themselves using a variety of different media such as clay, paint, textiles and collage.

Children are given the space, time and support of enthusiastic staff to help them develop their potential. When children ask, ’Can I do this?’ they are told, 'Yes you can as you are the artist'.

We are keen for the children to participate in as many art experiences as possible and take advantage of living in a progressive and creative city.

• Year 3 and 4 entered the Global Canvas Competition earlier this year (read more on this below!)
• Year 3 participated in the Tate 3 Project photograph and workshop.
• Year 1 and 2 have competed in the 4th Plinth Awards.
• Years 4, 5 and 6 all entered a local Mother’s Day Competition where works populated the local streets of Dulwich.
• Year 6 attended an Art workshop and visited the Dulwich Picture Gallery.

We hope to cram in even more Art experiences this coming year, exposing Heber children to as much creative thinking as possible.

The Art Room organises and hangs an annual show that celebrates the hard work and success of our children.  All parents and carers are invited to attend and marvel at the artistic talent that Heber children have shown.

In the past, Heber art has appeared on a local housing development in East Dulwich and featured on the huge video wall at Waterloo station as well as other rail stations throughout the land as part of a Christmas themed competition. Children have also won local art competitions and exhibited this success in local shops.

We entered the Global Canvas Competition which is set up to encourage young people to express their concern for the environment through art. Children cross disciplines with Science and Citizenship through their extensive research of environmental issues that informs the most arresting visual outcomes. We are very proud to have come 3rd in the Global Canvas Competition 2019 with our Hydrothermal Vents Habitats of The World entry!  Our children attended the finals at the Natural History Museum to display their work, hear insightful artist talks on Conservation Art, as well as present their own film (documenting the children at work) and giving a speech about their chosen habitat. This was an incredible experience which we hope will have a lasting impact.

This film documents the children throughout their extraordinary making process, from conception through to delivery of an incredibly diverse Coral Reef installation.  We hope you agree that this film is an incredible reflection of their attitude, compassion, collaboration, and determination to achieve such beautifully captivating and considered works.